Carolina potential not limitless

Posted Oct 20, 2006

The bickering spilled out into the parking lot Friday at Henry’s Memphis BBQ, with Greg Roberts insisting to me that North Carolina could be – and maybe should be – a dominant football program. “If that’s such a great job,” I asked Roberts, “then, why didn’t your boy, Frank, take it?” Carolina fans would argue that Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer did accept an offer to succeed Carl Torbush in 2000, only to change his mind after returning to Blacksburg. (Roanoke Times)

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